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Speaker 1: Let's stick on international relations. Tobin Marcus with work in
Speaker 1: the Obama Biden administration and economics. He's at Wolf Research.
Speaker 1: Tobin Marcus. He talked about the present administration and I
Speaker 1: asked him about how he perceived the previous effort.
Speaker 2: The latter stages of the Biden administration were somewhat listless.
Speaker 2: You know, they came in with a lot of ideas,
Speaker 2: were you know, faced a challenging global landscape. Certainly you
Speaker 2: look at places like Ukraine. I don't think that we
Speaker 2: saw a lot of progress over the course of the
Speaker 2: past couple of years. Sort of theory of the case,
Speaker 2: after the big counter offensive that they tried to prepare
Speaker 2: the Ukrainians for which didn't really succeed. I think mostly
Speaker 2: we were kind of holding ground for the past few years.
Speaker 1: Toovin Marcus at Wolf researched the many voices. Henrietta Trees
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Speaker 1: with Bloomberg Opinion, very informative and thought provoking of all
Speaker 1: this international relations. There is a heritage here at Bloomberg,
Speaker 1: and no one carries that heritage like Michael McKee. You
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Speaker 1: was the only one at Reyevic who couldn't have vodka
Speaker 1: because he was so young. Michael McKee was at Rayevic
Speaker 1: with Gorbaschev and Reagan and was in Lascow for the
Speaker 1: upset of Yeltsin. Michael McKee on Russia.
Speaker 3: You could get very philosophical and go back into the
Speaker 3: history of Russia and how it has generally been run
Speaker 3: by strong men, and how the Russian people are sort
Speaker 3: of used to that and are willing to do that.
Speaker 3: It's a little bit like what happened when China opened
Speaker 3: up and the Chinese Communist Party said, we will give
Speaker 3: you the possibility of prosperity as long as you stay
Speaker 3: out of politics, and that's kind of where the Russians
Speaker 3: are at the moment. But the problem is the war
Speaker 3: is creating all kinds of economic issues. So Putin has
Speaker 3: a reason to want to settle. The question is is
Speaker 3: where do they go from there? And I think, as
Speaker 3: Linskin points out, you can't trust Putin.
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